Before starting this article, the author stumbled upon a mythical story about Cao Cao, which I would like to add here.
During the Reign of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a talent named Sima Mao, who was very talented and intelligent when he was young, but his family was in a middle of nowhere and his fate was uncertain. One day he drank too much, and he wrote a word, which probably meant to scold God for doing things unjustly, and to say harsh words, if he were the king of Yama, he would be able to handle all the things in the world justly. He read the word several times under the lamp that night, and his anger rose from his heart and burned the word. It just so happened that this matter was discovered by the Night God, and this was also necessary, a little Confucian dared to complain about the injustice of Heavenly Reason, and wanted to be the King of Yama, and the Night God quickly reported the matter to the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor heard this and was about to cure Sima Mao of his sins. Taibai Venus stood up and said to the Jade Emperor, Sima Maokou said this, there must be great talent, since he said that he could handle the affairs of the world fairly as the king of Yama, let him try, he broke well, and atone for his sins; if he did not, punish him again, it is estimated that he would have nothing to say at that time. The Jade Emperor agreed, and Taishang Laojun took the holy will to the mansion to pass on the Will of the Jade Emperor, and the King of Yan ordered the little ghost to seduce Sima Mao's soul.
Sima Mao was both surprised and emotional when he saw the King of Yan, and after a moment of greeting, the King of Yan said that the Jade Emperor gave you six hours to be the King of Yama, and I wanted to see how you tried the case, the trial was good, and the next life made you glorious and rich, and the trial was not good, and beat you into hell. Sima Mao asked, do you have any cases piled up here? The judge replied that only the four major cases in the early Han Dynasty had not been completed, and it was more than three hundred and fifty years now. When Sima Mao looked at the case, the four cases were: the case of the murder of loyal subjects, the case of revenge by en generals, the case of seizing the throne by monopoly power, and the case of forcing people to die by taking advantage of danger. Sima Mao read the case and said, that's it! I can handle it.
Therefore, the first case was tried first, the case was that Han Xin helped Liu Bang defeat Xiang Yu and establish the Han Dynasty, but Liu Bang was jealous of Han Xin and repeatedly belittled Han Xin, and finally Han Xin was deceived by Lü Hou and Xiao He into changle Palace and assassinated.
Sima Mao interrogated the people involved in the case one by one. afterwards
"Summoning the prisoners one by one, they were reincarnated: Han Xin, you are loyal to the country, and you have taken most of the country for the Han family, but unfortunately you died unjustly." Send you to Cao Song under qiao xiang Cao Song, surname Cao, name Cao, table character Meng De. First han xiang, then the king of Wei, sitting in Xudu, enjoying half of the Han family's mountains and rivers. At that time, the authoritarian world is at your disposal to avenge the revenge of your past life. When you are not allowed to be called emperor, you know that you have no heart to rebel against Han; the son is subject to Han Zen, and you are honored as Emperor Wu, and the ten great merits are also paid. ” ——Ming Feng Menglong,"Yu Shi Mingyan"
It is said that Cao Cao is the reincarnation of Han Xin, which carries a little feudal superstition, but it does not affect us in the slightest to use dialectical materialism to study Cao Cao in history.
Life is smooth sailing, when you fall into the trough, if you can't always have the determination to get out of the desperate situation, you may fall deeper.
Zhang Ji led his troops to attack Nanyang, but was killed by an arrow, and his nephew Zhang Xiu collected his soldiers and horses, using Jia Xu as a strategist, trying to capture the city to blackmail the emperor.
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Cao Cao led 150,000 troops to attack Zhang Xiu, the strength of the two armies was quite different, Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao under the persuasion of Jia Xu, and Cao Cao gladly accepted. Cao Cao then garrisoned troops in Wancheng, and Zhang Xiu hosted a daily feast for Cao Cao.
The two sides were at peace, but one day Cao Cao got drunk and fell in love with Zhang Xiu's uncle's wife, Zou Shi, and shared a tent with Zou that night. This matter was known to Zhang Xiu, so he consulted with Jia Xu to clean up Cao Cao, and Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to use the excuse to plead with Cao Cao to let him transfer the army to the Chinese army. in order to approach Cao Cao.
In order to realize the plan, Zhang Xiu conspired with the partial general Hu Che'er to drunk Dianwei and steal his double halberd, in order to make Dianwei lose the ability to protect Cao Cao.
That night, Cao Cao and Zou Shi were drinking in their tents, and Zhang Xiu led his army into the village. Dianwei could only defend the gate of the village on his own, buying time for Cao Cao to escape. Cao Cao had just crossed the Qingshui River, when an arrow from the enemy struck the eye of The Great Wan horse cao was riding, Cao Cao fell to the ground with the horse, and the eldest son Cao Ang sacrificed his horse, but he himself was killed by random arrows, so Cao Cao escaped...